It's true, Krissy. You can't use most lamp shades and even most ceiling globes don't work. So, if you come into my house, just don't look up cause all you'll see are ugly light bulbs. lol.

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From Invented in Great Britain - British Inventors

JOSEPH WILSON SWAN

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (October 31, 1828 – May 27, 1914).

Swan was born in 1828 at Pallion Hall in Bishopwearmouth (now Sunderland), and he served an apprenticeship with a pharmacist there.

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Beginings

The first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy, an English scientist. He experimented with electricity and invented an electric battery. When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. But this was an electric arc.

Swan Light

Much later, in 1850 the English physicist Sir Joseph Wilson Swan began working on a light bulb using carbonised paper filaments in an evacuated glass bulb. By 1860 he was able to demonstrate a working device, and obtained a UK patent covering a partial vacuum, carbon filament incandescent lamp. However, the lack of a good vacuum and an adequate electric source resulted in an inefficient bulb with a small, uncontinued lifetime.

Later, in 1860, Joseph Swan was determined to devise a practical, long-lasting electric light. He found that a carbon paper filament worked well, but burned up quickly. In 1878, he demonstrated his new electric lamps in Newcastle, England.

Patent

Swan received a British patent for his device in 1878. Swan had reported success to the Newcastle Chemical Society and at a lecture in Newcastle in February 1879 he demonstrated a working lamp. Starting that year he began installing light bulbs in homes and landmarks in England. In 1880, Swan gave the world's first large-scale public exhibition of electric lamps at Newcastle. In 1881 he had started his own company, The Swan Electric Light Company, and started commercial production.

Photography

Swan is also remembered for his contribution to developing processes. He noticed that heat increased the sensitivity of the silver bromide emulsion. He later patented bromide paper, developments of which are still used for black and white photographic prints.

Swan was knighted in 1904.

  Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb, but instead invented the first commercially practical incandescent light. Several designs had already been developed by earlier inventors including the patent he purchased from Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans, Moses G. Farmer,^[20] Joseph Swan, James Bowman Lindsay, William E. Sawyer, Humphry Davy, and Heinrich Göbel. Some of these early bulbs had such flaws as an extremely short life, high expense to produce, and high electric current drawn, making them difficult to apply on a large scale commercially. In 1878, Edison applied the term filament to the element of glowing wire carrying the current, although the English inventor Joseph Swan had used the term prior to this. Edison took the features of these earlier designs and set his workers to the task of creating longer-lasting bulbs.

Hi Krissy!

We had an director of nursing where I worked that changed her entire office to an light pink shade of an lightbulb... her celing light was an florescent unit. She claimed it was better for your eyes. Plus she felt that it also made her area more cheerful to be in doing paperwork...and inhanced those whom came to visit her to be more cheerful and not so depressed in thier problems.

We changed our ligth bulbs over pretty much to the new bulbs soem time back, but I use lmap shades on my lamps, I just get an brighter light bulb. Most the ones I see say on the package they are re-cyclable. We really don't use lights that much any more if we can get out of it, as we like "mood setting" candles and other ways to light thngs up. My whole downstairs is mostly mirrors that reflect also. I can lay on the sofa and look tward the wall and see TV, or I can go to the bar area, as I was glasses and see TV in the mirror tiles. I have one whole corner of mirror panels, with an silk tree in the corner in front of it, I had to do that because the woodstove in the downstairs fireplace...an red brick arched fireplace is next to it, and I couldn't think of anything for the corner that would not possibly get "hot" if we built an fire in the woodstove for overnight. Though I also have just an ceiling fan, no light with it, that helps to circulate the air in the room. I have to do this because the first years we moved here in winter storms we were without electricty, in an all electric house. One reason I built in my patio also, as I got tired of going out to cook on an propane BBQ in the weather.If I leave the patio door open, I'm out of the elments an dthe heat is enough to be reasonably warm....no, I don't have smoke, I cook on pans and griddles and dont' have smoke. Just the same though, I do have two different kinds of smoke detectors though. One is wired into the house, the other is an carbon-dioxide type...and doesn't require smoke, to set it off, just the fumes if they are being emmmited can set it off.  We simply shut the door between the downstairs and upstairs and move downstairs until the weather breaks. As they say country folks tend to over the years learn to take care of themselves. My fireplace was re-built..to my specifications/and current fire codes..so that I could set this woodstove on an all brick platform and surround  (without legs) kind of into the archway..allowing me to cook soups and make hot water on it's top. We bought our house with the downstairs unfinished. So we were able to change things the way we wanted them. We saved $20,000 off the purchase price of the house back then also. 30 soem years ago I was probably the first person around with an grand bathroom with an jacuzzi tub. It's surrounded with mirrors and large silk greenery also. With two ther bathrooms, I never wanted this room to have two sinks...though it goes the length of the wall., at one time it held my big lighted aquarium of fish. Now it holds towels, greenery and huge catherderal type brass candlabras. Let me have my say...and you know things won't be the normal everyday stuff most houses have this size. It will most likey be versitle also. I have had my livingroom upstairs in and private bedroom in the past, though I need an door between my hallway and kitchen up there...so I dont' have to walk through this livingroom to get to my kitchen, something that my decorator I called out when we first got the hosue greatly suggested to save my carpeting...in being able to come from the outside directly to the kitchen. there are several ways to do that though, but I still need the door in the kitchen area. That would allow me 5 bedrooms upstairs and two bathrooms, and at least one or two sleeping areas downstairs, huge bathroom...and if the garage were partioned off possbly another one downstairs. Alas, my hubby though is not into doing such things any more, so unless I can do it myself..most likely will never have it. I find that very true these days..people could have so much more out of life.. if they'd just quit accepting what's handed over to them by someone that doesn't care about their comfort...people are more intereested in being the "same" then in being comfortably boldly unique.